What is a meme?

Dear Cecil: My boyfriend just told me about "memes," the theory of which apparently involves looking at ideas as viruses that invade the human brain. Strong memes replicate, causing the ideas to spread from person to person, and you wind up with things like religion and professional sports. Please, Cecil, what's the story on this?

— Susan P. , via the Internet The concept of memes is either really deep or really, really obvious. You can probably guess what side I initially came down on.

But having studied the matter, I'm now obliged to say that I'm not so sure. The term "meme" (rhymes with "dream") was coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book about evolution, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins doesn't claim genes are selfish in the same way as, say, kids who won't share.

Rather, he explains, the genes carried by each individual are the driving force behind evolution. As sentient beings we consider ourselves masters of our own fates, but in reality we're just the battlebots in which ... more.

Dear Cecil: My boyfriend just told me about "memes," the theory of which apparently involves looking at ideas as viruses that invade the human brain. Strong memes replicate, causing the ideas to spread from person to person, and you wind up with things like religion and professional sports. Please, Cecil, what's the story on this?

€” Susan P. , via the Internet The concept of memes is either really deep or really, really obvious. You can probably guess what side I initially came down on.

But having studied the matter, I'm now obliged to say that I'm not so sure. The term "meme" (rhymes with "dream") was coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book about evolution, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins doesn't claim genes are selfish in the same way as, say, kids who won't share.

Rather, he explains, the genes carried by each individual are the driving force behind evolution. As sentient beings we consider ourselves masters of our own fates, but in reality we're just the battlebots in which ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.